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Mandhavani Kriya Mantra To Clear Blocks
Mandhavani Kriya Mantra To Clear Blocks
Texto original en inglés, traducido en servicio para APKY por Deep Prakash Kaur
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toda victoria es tuya y no hayotra victoria por alcanzar más que la conquista de tu
propio corazón.
Postura: Siéntate en una posición cómoda con las piernas cruzadas y la columna
recta.
Ojos: Cerrados
Mantra: Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Hai BhaySach, Naanak Hosee Bhay Sach
Tiempo: 31 minutos.
Comentarios:
Esta es una meditación muy especial y sofisticada. Yogi Bhajan compartió esta
meditación como una forma de cultivar, conocer y actuar desde tu corazón.
Necesitamos la claridad de nuestro corazón para saber cómo recorrer el camino
del espíritu y realizarnos como seres humanos.
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A veces, no reconocemos que nuestra experiencia finita en el cuerpo humano es
en parte para crear una polaridad para que podamos experimentar el Infinito. Lo
finito y lo Infinito son como dos manos que están ahí para servir a nuestro
corazón. Sentimos el deseo de expandirnos y tocar esa naturaleza infinita.
Podemos expresar esto como un deseo de poder, estatus, dinero o simplemente
para vernos más grandes y mejores en nuestra musculatura o nuestra apariencia.
Pero cuando nos conformamos con estos objetivos finitos, en lugar de abarcar
toda la luz de nuestro infinito, a menudo nos enredamos. Nos atascamos y no
podemos ver ni aceptar nuestra propia luz. Como lo expresó Yogi Bhajan, nos
conformamos con un solo emparedado de mantequilla de maní en lugar del festín
de abundancia que continuará durante toda nuestra vida.
“Hemos olvidado una cosa. No hemos venido a esta Tierra para tener una religión,
en absoluto. No hemos venido aquí para hacer negocios. Todas estas son
herramientas para lograr una cosa, que es un instinto humano básico, que este
finito quiere fusionarse en el Infinito. No queremos esto o aquello, pero queremos
tener todo; queremos sentir todo, queremos saber todo, queremos fusionarnos en
todo y queremos que todo se fusione en nosotros. Cuando dejas de intentar esto,
te destruyes a ti mismo. Tu mecanismo se destruye porque entonces actúas
contra tu propia naturaleza de buscar el Infinito."
Mudra
Con el mudra de las manos creamos una polaridad. La mano derecha está
contraída, apasionada y yang. La mano izquierda esta relajada, receptiva y yin. El
pulgar derecho presiona firmemente en el centro de la mano izquierda y el resto
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de los dedos de la mano derecha agarran el dorso de la mano izquierda y aprietan
casi como una tenaza. Mantenemos este firme agarre en forma de garra de
manera constante. El punto que estás presionando se llama Talahrida. Es el
octavo punto en el meridiano del pericardio. También se conecta al meridiano
triple más cálido. Por lo tanto, es una intersección de dos corrientes: una
polaridad.
Este punto en el sistema del yoga, un punto marma, se conoce como el "protector
del corazón". Cuando se estimula este punto, su efecto es estabilizar las
sensaciones y expandir la sensibilidad del corazón. El corazón se estabiliza
en medio de las diferentes emociones y factores estresantes que provienen
del exterior o del interior. Por esta razón, mantener este punto también se
asocia con una buena salud en los pulmones, el corazón y la circulación, e incluso
en el sistema inmune.
Mantra
Añade a este mudra el canto que dio Baba Siri Chand, el decimoséptimo
Ashtapadi de Sukhmani Sahib. Cuando dio este mantra, era distinto del lenguaje
contemporáneo y las escrituras. Era un maestro yogui que, de hecho, entrenó a
varios de los gurús Sikh. Cuando pronunció este mantra, desbloqueó la escritura
de lo que se convertiría en una hermosa escritura en la tradición Sikh. Se ha
utilizado desde entonces para ir a la esencia de una situación, desbloquear y
permitir que nazca el milagro de lo que ya está presente.
Esta meditación trata sobre la esencia y la sensibilidad del corazón. Ubica nuestro
poder en nuestra conciencia y nuestro ser elevado. En la conferencia adjunta, Yogi
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Bhajan nos ayuda a comprender que instintivamente seguimos a un líder o una
jerarquía de fama o estatus. Nos pide que vayamos a la esencia como hizo Baba
Siri Chand en ese momento de milagro. Luego explica que solo hay un camino
verdadero y que reside en tu corazón, como un individuo, mientras abrazas
completamente tu situación particular y el Infinito del que formas parte. En sus
propias palabras, dice:
“Ningún profeta que ha dicho la verdad ha dicho una verdad diferente. Pero
algunos lo explicaron detalladamente, algunos sólo lo insinuaron, algunos lo
dejaron como un misterio y algunos lo explicaron con maestría. Esa diferencia está
ahí. No hay otra diferencia No hay Judaísmo, ni Cristianismo, ni Budismo, ni
Islamismo, ni Sikhismo, ni Hinduismo, nada. Estas son carreteras, caminos
apartados y autopistas. Estas son rutas, y estas rutas tienen sus carriles y reglas...
Dominar esta meditación es ver más allá de nuestro propio impulso de categorizar,
separarnos de los demás y juzgar. Un maestro de esta meditación que abre su
corazón nunca actúa para destruir o condenar, sino para crear, elevar y entregar.
Escucha profunda
Cuando escuchas desde la puerta entre lo finito y lo Infinito, el mantra que recitas
se convierte en el shabad, un sonido que disuelve el ego al invitar al Infinito a
través del corazón que encarnas. Como Yogi Bhajan nos instruyó:
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puedes escucharlo con precisión. Lo escuchas dentro de ti mismo, no de nadie
más. Eso significa que está perfeccionado. Entonces, cada vez que lo realices, el
milagro maestro sucederá.”
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TEXTO ORIGINAL EN INGLES
“When your work doesn’t proceed, you get blocked, if you chant this mantra, then
not only it will start, it will start like Infinity.” Yogi Bhajan 4/11/77
The practice of this meditation, even briefly, locates you in your heart, opens your
perception, and lets you immediately recognize the way forward.
Mandhavani means being in the presence of intelligence, beauty, and profound
caring. It is a state of joy. It’s when you’re so happy that you feel the hand and
grace of God accompany each breath and effort. In that state all victory is yours
and there is no victory to win but to conquer your own heart.
Mudra: Bring the hands in front of the throat, forearms paraIlel to the ground. The
left hand is palm down; the palm is flat and the fingers point to the right. Extend the
left thumb toward the throat. Bring the right thumb between the left thumb and
index finger, placing it in the center of the left palm and allow the fingers of the right
hand to rest on the back of the left hand. Lock the right thumb in place and apply
firm pressure on the left palm. Hold the position at the level of the throat about six
inches in front of the body.
Eyes: Closed
Time: 31 minutes.
Comments:
Be sure to keep the arms parallel to the ground. The key to this meditation is
locking the right thumb and keeping firm pressure on the center of the left hand.
Your thumb may become sore after a while but be strong and don’t give an inch.
This is a very special and sophisticated meditation. Yogi Bhajan shared this
meditation as a way to cultivate, know and act from your heart. We need the clarity
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of our heart to know how to walk the path of spirit and fulfill ourselves as human
beings.
As he explained it, each of us has a longing to touch the Infinite—to merge with
and become the Infinite. This is a quality and a desire built deep within our nervous
system and hosted by our spirit.
Sometimes we do not recognize that our finite experience in the human body is in
part to create a polarity so we can experience the Infinite. The finite and the Infinite
are like two hands which are there to both serve our heart. We feel the desire to
expand and touch that infinite nature. We may express this as a desire for power,
status, money, or to simply look bigger and better in our musculature or our
fashions. But when we settle for these finite goals, instead of embracing the full
light of our infinity, we often get entangled. We become stuck and can neither see
nor accept our own light. As Yogi Bhajan put it, we settle for a single peanut butter
sandwich instead of the ongoing feast of plenty that will continue for all our lives.
We get into this entangled state when we are upset by the intensity or
misdirection of our emotions. We certainly embrace emotions as essential to
a fulfilled life. And emotions are good as they connect us and help us know
what’s important. The problem comes in the moment when they become
uncontrolled, imbalanced, or simply inappropriate to the realities that we
face. Then they fail to serve the real desire of our heart. As Yogi Bhajan said:
“We have forgotten one thing. We have not come on this Earth to have a religion,
not at all. We have not come here to do a business. These are all tools to achieve
one thing-which is a basic human instinct—that this finite wants to merge in Infinity.
We want to have not this, not that, but we want to have everything; we want to feel
everything, we want to know everything, we want to merge in everything, and we
want everything to merge in us. When you stop trying this, you destroy yourself. It
destroys your mechanism because then you act against your own nature to seek
Infinity.”
In order to elevate ourselves as human beings and to stay on the path of our spirit,
there are simple tools that can help us. They give us the clarity, courage and
consciousness we need. This meditation is one of those tools.
The full effect of this meditation comes from a combination of three parts—the
mudra, mantra, and meditative focus.
Mudra
With the hand mudra we create a polarity. The right-hand is contracted, fiery and
yang. The left-hand is relaxed, receptive and yin. The right thumb presses firmly in
the center of the left-hand and the rest of the fingers of the right hand grab the
back of the left-hand and squeeze almost like a pincer. We hold this firm claw-like
grasp steadily. The point it’s pressing is called the Talahrida. It is the 8th point on
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the Pericardium meridian. It connects to the triple warmer meridian as well. So it is
an intersection of two streams—a polarity.
This point in the system of yoga, a marma point, is known as the “protector of the
heart.” When this point is stimulated, its effect is to stabilize the sensations
and expand the sensitivity of the heart. The heart becomes stable amidst all
the different emotions and stressors that come from outside or inside us. For
this reason, holding this point is also associated with good health in the lungs and
heart and circulation, and even in the immune system.
When it is combined with the meditation and the breath it creates a state of
extreme calm in which we can sense the entire subtle body. We become receptive
to recognize the step we need to take along the line of our destiny. Instead of
manipulating, using lies, self-deception, force or cleverness, we use
recognition from our heart—our whole Self. We allow our infinity to guide us,
speak to us, and show us each step along our way. When we recognize that
step, we can act whole-heartedly with full courage and commitment. That
commitment is elegant, precise and full of blessing.
The left-hand keeps the thumb extended pointing toward the throat. The left thumb
is now open and receptive to the projection of each word, each creation of our
consciousness. As we hold the mudra at the level of the throat, our forearms are
parallel to the ground and this lifts our chest and heart center just a bit.
Mantra
Add to this mudra the chant that was given by Baba Siri Chand—the
seventeenth ashtapadi of Sukhmani Sahib. When he gave this mantra it varied
from the contemporary language and scriptures. He was a master yogi who in fact
trained several of the Sikh Gurus. When he spoke this mantra it unblocked the
writing of what would become a beautiful scripture in the Sikh tradition. It has been
used ever since to go to the essence of a situation, unblock and allow the miracle
of what is already present to take birth.
This meditation is about essence and sensitivity from the heart. It locates our
power in our consciousness and our elevated Self. In the accompanying lecture
Yogi Bhajan helps us understand that we instinctively follow a leader or a hierarchy
of fame or status. He asks us to go to essence as did Baba Siri Chand in that
moment of miracle. He then explains that there is only one true path and that
resides in your heart, as an individual, as you fully embrace both your particular
situation and the Infinite of which you are part. In his own words, he says:
“No prophet who has spoken truth has spoken a different truth. But some have
explained elaborately, some have just hinted it, some left it as a mystery, and some
explained it with a mastery. That difference is there. There is no other difference.
There is no Judaism, no Christianity, no Buddhism, no Islam, no Sikhism, no
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Hinduism, nothing. These are highways, byways and freeways. These are routes,
and these routes have their lanes and rules….
Try to understand the concept that the human mind is not here, there or anywhere-
- it is universal. It is our desire that becomes religion; Dharma is not religion.
Dharma is to walk and whosoever falls, carry them. It's a caravan. It is a
walking path of righteousness. Everybody is equal. None is denounced.”
To master this meditation is to see beyond our own impulse to categorize, separate
our self from others, and judge. A master of this meditation who opens their heart
never acts to destroy or condemn, but to create, elevate and deliver.
Deep Listening
Add to these two components a third: the perfection of deep listening. We call
it sunia—from a place of perfect inner stillness, you listen. Clear and alert that you
speak each phoneme with your tongue. Equally clear that the Universe
simultaneously vibrates without sound through your tongue. You hear the sounds
you produce with both ears, with your whole mind, and with your heart. Let each
sound resonate through your whole being like a pebble across the calmest of
ponds. And in that complex matrix of ripples you are still personally present and
feel your vastness in equal proportion to your specific finiteness. You are in this
body. At this time. Timelessly and fully engaged.
When you listen from the doorway between the finite and Infinite, the mantra you
recite becomes the shabad—a sound that dissolves the ego as it invites the Infinite
through the heart that you embody. As Yogi Bhajan instructed us:
“This is a Shabad. If you can perfect that Shabad—perfect means when you can
recite it correctly at any time without any hindrance while reciting, this is the
perfection of the Shabad. While reciting you can hear it accurately. You hear it
within yourself, not anybody else. That means it is perfected. Then whenever you
will perform it the master miracle will happen.”
The practice of this meditation, even briefly, locates you in your heart, opens your
perception, and lets you immediately recognize the way forward. All the blocks that
seemed absolute dissolve. When darkness and struggle seems to surround
you, a ray of light finds its way in and it is even easier to see through the
darkness. This is a state of ordinary miracles. This is a steady state of
gratitude to see the constant flow of miracles that accompany you on your
path. That is Dharma!
Now you can understand the meaning of the name of the Kriya. It means being in
the presence of intelligence, beauty, and profound caring. It is a state of joy. It’s
when you’re so happy that you feel the hand and grace of God accompany each
breath and effort. In that state all victory is yours and there is no victory to win but
to conquer your own heart.
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